Improvement in mowing-machines



l. P. MAN-NY. Mowing'Machine'.

Patented July 27,1875

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JOHN -I?. MANNY, OF ROOKFORD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOWlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,019, dated July 27, 1875; application filed November 1.28, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN l?. MANNY, of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mowing-Machines, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the divider, grasswheel, and track-clearer of a mowingmachine.

In the accompanying drawings,gFigure l is a view in perspective of so much of the divider end of the cutting apparatus of a mowingmachine as is necessary to illustrate my invention; Fig. 2, a plan thereof, partly in section 5 Fig. 3, a side view thereof, also partly in section; and Fig. 4 a vertical transverse section therethrough.

The dividerA is secured to the finger-beam B in any of the usual well-known ways. The divider is conical in its general outline and trough-shaped or openen one sidethe grainside. A recess is formed in its inner wall to receive the end of the track-clearer G. A rose or series of radial corrugations, d, on the outer side of the inner wall of the divider, receives a correspondingly-grooved stud-bracket, B, in which an arm, E, is pivoted at 6, so

as to swing freely horizontally. A spur, e',

limits the inward swing of this arm, and prevents it from injuring the track-clearer.

A grass-wheel, F, turns on a studlaxle, f, projecting from this swinging arm. By means of the radial grooves, the grass-wheel arm can be set at any desired angle of inclination to the ground, (see dotted lines, Fig. 3.) Owing bracket, to which the grass-wheel arm is hinged, and the single through-bolt which secures the above-named parts together.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

JOHN P. MANNY.

Witnesses v l A WM. J. PEYTON, E. (l. DAVIDSON. 

